ENGLISH GRAMMAR 

Grammar – Basic English Grammar lessons

PRESENT SIMPLE :

• something that is true in the present:

I’m nineteen years old.
He lives in London.
I’m a student.

• something that happens again and again in the present:

I play football every weekend.

We use words like sometimes, often. always, and never (adverbs of frequency) with the present tense:

I sometimes go to the cinema.
She never plays football.

• something that is always true:

The adult human body contains 206 bones.
Light travels at almost 300,000 kilometres per second

Forming the Present Simple

Spelling Tip

In the present simple 3rd person singular (he, she, it), add s, es, or ies to the base form of the verb.

• To regular verbs just add an s – Ex: travel >travels, give > gives, play >plays
• To verbs that end in s, ss, sh, ch, x, and o, add an es – Ex: wash > washes, mix > mixes, go >goes
• To verbs end in y after a consonant (any letter that isn’t a vowel), change the y to i and add es. Ex: study > studies, fly > flies

TIME expressions :

the most common time expressions in present simple are :

always, sometimes, seldom, never, on Wednesdays, twice a week, every day, every month, every year.

for example :-

I always go to school by bus.